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12 March 1808 Letter V §.6
12 March 1808

Letter V

§.6. Reasons

Ends of Justice

For securing to a man the benefit of a right, ordaining satisfaction to be made to him in the event of the commission of the correspondent wrong, will not always be sufficient, without the aid of punishment to be inflicted on the wrongdoer: of the burthen imposable on him by satisfaction administered at his charge, the prospect will not always, in the character of punishment be sufficient to deter him from the commission of the wrong: the matter of satisfaction (money for example considered as thus applicable) the matter without which adequate satisfaction can not be made, is wanting to many a man: the matter of punishment can never be wanting to any man to whom the sense of feeling is not wanting.

In the case of him to whom, after conferring on him a right of a certain description, satisfaction, in the event of his having sustained the correspondent wrong, is ordained by the legislator to be administered by the Judge, satisfaction in that event, to be administered by the Judge, is due:

To him, to whom in a case described, a right is by the legislator ordained to be conferred by the Judge, collative of such right, is in service due in such case from the Judge:

In the case of him, on whom in the event of a wrong of a certain description committed by him, punishment of a certain description is by the legislator ordained to be inflicted or administered by the Judge, such punishment, is in that event thus from the Judge.

Correspondent wrongs or offences by the Judge these wrongs[?] evil - these evils correspondent to so many ends of justice & judication.
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